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New comment by w00ds in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

w00ds — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:16:31 +0000

Actually, it is more human, because there are humans involved at each level. Doesn't matter if you think the music sucks, it's definitionally more human than AI music.

New comment by w00ds in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

w00ds — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:50:20 +0000

In fighting games, this is exactly the way "scrubs" think. They lose and appeal to some vague notion of fairness to avoid confronting the reality - they lost!

Would be funny if it wasn't real.

New comment by w00ds in "The Codex App"

w00ds — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:54:47 +0000

File pilot is extremely good in my experience, literally the only issue is it doesn't display the sync status on icons in a Dropbox folder.

New comment by w00ds in "Alterego: Thought to Text"

w00ds — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 23:46:14 +0000

It's possible the demo is faked, and I'm skeptical. But I also don't think the speed is really the point of a device like this. Getting out a device, pressing keys or tapping on it, and putting it away again, those attentional costs of using some device... I know something like basic notetaking would feel really different to me if I was able to just do the thing in the demo at high accuracy instead. That's a big if, though - the accuracy would have to be high for it to really be useful, and the video is probably best-case clips.

New comment by w00ds in "This website is for humans"

w00ds — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 02:33:26 +0000

It's crazy how appealing the irl version you mentioned is, compared to the online version. Looking through a book, meeting people and sharing recipes, etc. The world you're interacting with actually cares about you. Feels like the net can't ever have that now.

New comment by w00ds in "GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it"

w00ds — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:28:59 +0000

Does Pro fix the fundamental issues he describes? I would think it would have to do that to "completely invalidate his opinion", rather than just be better than the base model.

New comment by w00ds in "Show HN: eInk optimized manga with Kindle Comic Converter (+Kobo/ReMarkable)"

w00ds — Wed, 07 May 2025 20:38:10 +0000

Exactly what I've been looking for, amazing work!

New comment by w00ds in "Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its schools (2023)"

w00ds — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:22:09 +0000

Exactly that which is not amenable to metrics...

New comment by w00ds in "If someone designed us, they sure weren't intelligent"

w00ds — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 05:01:02 +0000

they weren't all that intelligent? from where i'm sitting, looking at the difficulty that extremely intelligent people have trying to design robotics that perform the most trivial of human tasks, they must have been pretty damn intelligent.

even if you just assume that the intelligence involved was just responsible for fine-tuning the initial system such that life can come about, that seems to be a type of creative genius that we can't even begin to fathom.

i think asking whether there is 'intelligence' behind the unfurling of reality might be the wrong question, but it's also laughably anthropocentric to say the mindboggling proliferation of living forms doesn't have at least the appearance of genius design, even if it may be designoid.